On Heating the Sun's Corona by Magnetic Explosions: Feasibility in Active Regions and Prospects for Quiet Regions and Coronal Holes

Moore, R. L., D. A. Falconer, J. G. Porter, and S. T. Suess, On Heating the Sun's Corona by Magnetic Explosions: Feasibility in Active Regions and Prospects for Quiet Regions and Coronal Holes, ApJ, 526, 505-522 (1999) (ADS)

The cartoon

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A more or less definitive version of the standard-model (CSHKP) cartoon that Moore and colleagues have evolved over the years, this one explained in terms of a "core field" which may explode somehow, defying the laws of thermodynamics in the process. I'd fault this cartoon by appealing to a "twist buildup" phase. By now (and probably also suspected in 1999) it seems more and more likely that the stress bodily emerges with the field, rather than being imposed later on.

      Note that in the Archivist's mind, an M for Moore should have been included in the CSHKP initialization. And others as well, notably Zdenek Švestka (an Š). See if you must the Shibata cartoon for further embellishment.

Date: 2007 January 27

Update: 2019 November 26